Ahh...the Egg Yolk...I'm not sure on that one. Personally, I would leave them enabled, and just replace the bulbs with Solaris Electrum InvisiBulbs, ULTRABRIGHT edition, which are clear when off, and amber when illuminated:

BMW has organized the complete car into sections, features and add ons. Each of them is called a module. Physical interconnection between a module and the vehicle are pre-defined by BMW. To make the entire car system workable and to take care of future additions and deletions, a system of rules are defined and to add the flexibility to the operation, each module is provided by certain configurable parameters. What we are doing in coding is accessing these modules parameters and adjusting their values.

We have very limited information about the functioning of all the parameters but many have tried to study them by experimenting them and then the successful combination of parameters with their values for a function are listed in so called cheet sheets. Coders can look at the sheet and determine what function they want to achieve and can look at the changed values. Making these parametric changes to CIC logic is called coding.

BMW has organized the complete car into sections, features and add ons. Each of them is called a module. Physical interconnection between a module and the vehicle are pre-defined by BMW. To make the entire car system workable and to take care of future additions and deletions, a system of rules are defined and to add the flexibility to the operation, each module is provided by certain configurable parameters. What we are doing in coding is accessing these modules parameters and adjusting their values.

We have very limited information about the functioning of all the parameters but many have tried to study them by experimenting them and then the successful combination of parameters with their values for a function are listed in so called cheet sheets. Coders can look at the sheet and determine what function they want to achieve and can look at the changed values. Making these parametric changes to CIC logic is called coding.

Very good explanation. Decipher the black box by feeding it a range of values and observing what happens. More like system testing really

It is a debatable question. You would lose the warranty if it can be proved that a change of setting is the cause of the degradation of a part. Example: change of settings to door openi
Gs, closing, tail gate closing, suppressing warnings, DVD in motion, displaying tyre pressures etc won't stress car parts beyond normal operations.

If you have saved your original cafd files, you can always go back to original settings. In such case, don't read the cafd file values from the car, use the original saved cafd files. There are other ways too but I prefer this over others as I know exactly what change I m reverting to and not leaving system to set the default values on its own.

We definitely love to resolve genuine problems but this case was a classic case. We were close but far from the solution for marathon man. It was Shawn who kept on motivating me even at his late night and that resulted into a work around for marathon man.

But never-the-less we would suggest members to keep using data files 2.46.3 until we get a new release and find that it is backward compatible too. It is found that data files 2.46.6 and 2.47.1 do not support all the modules of our cars. Either we have to wait for the new release and/ or understand the changes in depth. If I have understood the German numbering system correctly, series 47 may not be fully compatible with series 46 but there would be work arounds to use series 47, I might be wrong

It is a debatable question. You would lose the warranty if it can be proved that a change of setting is the cause of the degradation of a part. Example: change of settings to door openi
Gs, closing, tail gate closing, suppressing warnings, DVD in motion, displaying tyre pressures etc won't stress car parts beyond normal operations.

If you have saved your original cafd files, you can always go back to original settings. In such case, don't read the cafd file values from the car, use the original saved cafd files. There are other ways too but I prefer this over others as I know exactly what change I m reverting to and not leaving system to set the default values on its own.

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I would LOVE to know HOW to place (copy/overwrite/etc) the original "saved" CAFD files (now on my laptop) back into the car, so that it would be like it originally came. I have not seen that information anywhere in these (or other) threads. Everyone says "make a backup copy of them and save them in a safe place" in case you need to return the car to original programmed specs. I certainly did that - I just don't know how to put them back into the car IF I need to.

I would LOVE to know HOW to place (copy/overwrite/etc) the original "saved" CAFD files (now on my laptop) back into the car, so that it would be like it originally came. I have not seen that information anywhere in these (or other) threads. Everyone says "make a backup copy of them and save them in a safe place" in case you need to return the car to original programmed specs. I certainly did that - I just don't know how to put them back into the car IF I need to.

Any help/advice/directions on that?

THANKS!

Steps are very similar to what you do during coding. When you right click on any cafd file and select Read Coding Data, it reads data from car. So in place of selecting read coding data, select New and point to the saved cafd file matching the exact same name in your saved folder and proceed with the regular steps of saving and activating FA and code FDL. In this process you will push the saved cafd data back to car.

This is very logical and easy to visualize. You need to use cafd files which were changed in your coding earlier, forget about others which were not touched at all.

There are other ways too but I prefer the above as it is very logical and we know exactly what we are doing.

I should be getting my X3 in approx. 3 weeks now and I wanted to get in to coding a few of the variables in my car as well. Do you still have any of the ENET Cables? Or a reputable source that I may be able to buy them off of?